Rising star in U.S. Justice
Mythili Raman, the newly appointed Acting Assistant Attorney General
for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department and successor
to Mr. Lanny Breuer, is widely acclaimed in legal circles as a
trailblazer in the Justice Department. Her parents are from
Vadaramaraadchi, Jaffna. Ms Raman had her undergraduate degree from
Yale, and obtained a law degree from the University of Chicago.
Full text of her bio from the Department of Justice website follows:
As head of the Criminal Division,
Ms. Raman oversees nearly 600 attorneys who prosecute federal criminal
cases across the country and help develop the criminal law. She also
works closely with the nation’s 93 United States Attorneys in connection
with the investigation and prosecution of criminal matters in their
districts. Ms. Raman has been serving in the Criminal Division since
August 2008, first as Acting Chief of Staff and, from September 2, 2009
to March 1, 2013, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and
Chief of Staff.
Ms. Raman joined the Department of Justice in
1996, as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and
Dangerous Drug Section, where she prosecuted narcotics cases in
districts across the country. From 1999 to 2008, she served as an
Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
District of Maryland, where she prosecuted and supervised dozens of
criminal cases involving violent crime, financial fraud, narcotics,
child exploitation and civil rights offenses. In Maryland, she served as
Branch Chief of the district’s Greenbelt office and then as the
district’s Appellate Chief. For her work in Greenbelt, Ms. Raman
received numerous honors and awards, including the Director’s Award for
Superior Performance and the Special Award of Honor from the
International Narcotic Enforcement Officers' Association. In 2006, on a
detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Raman served as Senior
Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, advising the Deputy Attorney
General on a variety of criminal law matters and managing the day-to-day
work of the President's Identity Theft Task Force.
Ms. Raman
began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Francis D.
Murnaghan, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1991 and
with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1994.
External Links:
| DoJ: | Meet the AAG | |
| MJ: | ‘Too Big to Jail’ Isn’t Accurate, Acting DOJ Criminal Chief Testifies |
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